In our latest podcast episode, British artist Claire Luxton talks about how her recent focus on photography grew from her grounding in painting and sculpture, how she uses self-portraiture as a means to express the strength and fragility of the individual that is mirrored in our environment, how her personal anxiety caught the zeitgeist of the current pandemic and how her work and accompanying poetry explores isolation, desire and uncertainty.
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Hope (Seeds of Doubt)
they sow the seeds of doubt
night and day
it enters our subconscious
intravenously fed
into our nervous system since birth
we plant it in each other
to boost our own growth
thinking that stealing our neighbours’
sun
will land them in shade
but though doubt spreads its roots in
winter
it will never be evergreen
the truth can fertilise hope and it blooms all year long
Images and poem are ©Claire Luxton
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
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